Women Rights Issue in Pakistan

Each year 8th March is globally
celebrated as International Women’s Day. On this day every nation state revives
her commitment to ensure equal justice, rights and opportunities to women in
society. Women are globally facing many challenges in both developed and
developing countries. Pakistan being a developing country has many social,
political and economic problems and so her female citizens are facing many
challenges. Some of these challenges but not limited to are given below.

Lack
Of Autonomy: Women in Pakistani society have no or
very less right to say or decide anything about their lives. Most of the time
decisions are taken by the male members of the society. This is mainly due to
their dependency on other members of the family. This is the root cause of all
problems related to women rights. If this problem is solved, hopefully all
other issues will get solve itself.

Gender
Biasedness: Women in Pakistan like all other women
of the world daily face many problems mainly due to their gender. In our
society male child is preferred by parents over female. Parents considered son
as the source of assistance in their aged life while girl is considered as
burden. Due to this reason baby girl in Pakistani society from day one start
facing many challenges and human rights violations.

Sexual
Harassment: This is another very critical problem
that women not only in Pakistan but in every society of the world face. Either
a woman is in office or at a public gathering she has to face the distinctive
action and the use of seductive words by male members of the society. Over the
past few years an increase in women’s sexual harassment cases in Pakistan has
been observed.

Illiteracy:
In Pakistan the illiteracy rate is more in female population as compared to men.
There are many reasons of this problem some of which are the lack of interest
of parents, unavailability of girls’ schools and social setup.

Honor
Killing: Honor killing is another very common form of human
rights violation of women in Pakistan.

Article 25 (2) of the 1973 constitution of Pakistan says
that there shall be no discrimination in the country on the basis of sex.